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The easiest way to make any outfit a little more fall 2023 is by adding a pop of red—perhaps by looping a scarlet sweater around your shoulders, or carrying a cherry-hued handbag. Red is a key color this year, and for those who aren’t up for wearing the statement shade from top to toe (like Rihanna or Pamela), a spicy red accessory is an easy way to tap into the trend.
Inspiration arrived this week in Paris, where The Row’s spring 2024 show included a pair of red caged jelly shoes. Simone Rocha and Sandy Liang were in more of a romantic, balletic mood for spring, showcasing scarlet satin ballerina flats with elastic straps across the foot (very Sadler’s Wells).
Beyond the runways, this shoe trend is already making its presence felt among the street-style set and in It-girl circles. Dorothy-esque pumps popped up on the pavements during New York Fashion Week, where Mary Leest wore her glossy red Mary-Janes with matching postbox-red tights, while Leandra Medine matched The Row’s red sock slippers to a poppy rosette pinned to her white vest top.
On the celebrity scene, Sofia Richie had her own New York Fashion Week moment in Jacquemus’s backless ballerinas, while a newly-single Sophie Turner dined with Taylor Swift wearing a pair of rich red satin ballerinas by The Row.
Decades before Chanel released its classic toe-cap pumps, and before Kate Moss made black ballet pumps her signature shoe, Brigitte Bardot introduced the world to the appeal of a red flat. The movie star commissioned Repetto to make her a pair of tomato-red ballet pumps to wear in the 1956 film And God Created Woman. Almost 70 years later, the shoe looks ripe for the picking.
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